Safety-pin.



No. 754,743. PATENTED MAR. 15, 1904. A. BUOKELBW.

SAFETY PIN.

APPLICATION FILED Jpn 12, 1903. no MODEL.

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UNTTED STATES Patented March 15, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 754,743, dated March15, 1904.

Application filed June 12, 1903. Serial No. 161,121. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANNIE BUOKELEW, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Lancaster, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inSafety-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved safetypin, the object of myinvention being to provide a device of this character which shall be ofespecial value for detachably supporting one garment upon another.

To illustrate the utility of my invention, I have herein shown the samein use for supporting a skirt upon a waist.

My invention therefore resides in the novel construction, combination,and arrangement of parts for the above ends hereinafter fully specified,and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the rearportion of a skirt and waist, the former supported upon the latter bymeans of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same,parts being broken away. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the devicedetached. Fig. 4 is a view of the blank strip of sheet metal.

Referring to the drawings, 1 represents a strip of sheet metal, one endof which is reduced in width and bent around, as shown at 2, to form ahinge for the pin, while the other end is first bent inward or downward,as shown at 3, and then has its extended edges bent around to form lips4: to engage the ends of the prongs. The pin is formed of a piece ofwire bent at the middle 5 into a U-shaped form, said middle portion 5being engaged by.

said hinge 2, and the ends 6 of the wire are sharpened to form prongsand after being passed through the garment are engaged by the lips I. I

When the device has been secured in place, as upon the lower portion ofa waist 7, the sheet-metal strip 1 forms a neat and convenient supporton which to suspend another garment, as a skirt 8, by means of hooks 9,secured to said skirt and engaging said strip.

The advantage of having two prongs is that it prevents the upper edge ofthe sheet-metal strip being pulled down or sagging when supporting theweight of the lower garment by means of the hooks. With asingle prongthe device would turn around said prong as an axis, so that the point ofsupport of the other garment would hang below the attachment of the pinto the upper garment.

It will be observed that the hinge end of the strip of metal, as shownin Fig. 4, is of the full width of the strip, so that there areshoulders 10 next to that portion of the strip around which the pin isbent. This enlarged terminal portion'll lies between the middle portion5 of the pin and the strip, as shown in Fig. 8. Said shoulders 10therefore .serve two purposesfirst, to space the pin away from the strip1, thus allowing the hooks to engage said strip, as shown in Figs. 1 and2, and, secondly, said shoulders 10 cause the pin to spring away fromthe strip 1, so that when the prongs engage the lips t they engage themwith a springpressure, which insures the pin remaining closed.

I claim A safety-pin comprising a strip of sheet metal having one endbent around to form a hinge, and the other end having its extended edgesbent to form lips, and adouble-pronged pin formed of a piece of wirebent at the middle and there -engaging the hinge portion of thesheet-metal strip and the ends of the wire being sharpened to formprongs and engaging the lips, the hinge end of the strip having itsextreme terminal portion enlarged, to lie between the bent portion ofthe pin and the strip in forming a hinge and having shoulders to presssaid pin away from said strip, and the other end of the strip being bentinward or ANNIE BUCKELEW.

Witnesses:

ABRAHAM HALSEY, HERMAN W. MELROSE.

